Hillary represents exactly the direction I never want this country to go. I can't name one thing she supports that I agree with. She is as extreme left as Pat Buchanan is extreme right. She would continue a trend that began with FDR's "new deal" that keeps on turning our country into a socialized welfare state that stifles progress rather than a lean & mean capitalist country that rewards initiative and determination. Building a country where everyone lives equally well is an unrealistic goal. Her efforts will ensure that the majority live equally poorly with maximum security but minimum freedom while the elite minority (like her and the rest of her Commie pals who know what's best for the rest of us) live like kings. Keeping this country where anyone with talent and determination has the opportunity to succeed as well or BETTER than anyone else while those that are lazy or incapable are left behind sounds cruel to Democrats, but is the foundation of this country. Republicans may be wealthy elitistists backing big corporations, but at least they do so without threatening to tax us to death so they can extend government control over every aspect of our lives to decide what's best for us.
I am neither Republican nor Democrat and as such have never voted in a primary. But I always vote in the actual elections. I wish the whole party system would go away so candidates would run on their ability to make good decisions rather than their ability to follow party doctrine while saying whatever they think the voters want to hear. But since I am stuck with this two-party system, I always have only two choices.
But I am certain that if Hillary runs for office that I will have no choices and be forced to live with a President that does not represent me or the direction I would like to see my country going in any way, shape, or form. I already went throught that while Bill was in office.
At least Kerry served in the military and even saw combat. I view Kerry as a moderate (like GWB) who will pander to the masses for the most part. The fact that he is spineless on big decisions and proudly spit in the face of Vietnam veterans after leaving the service are very big flaws, but no where near as bad as Bill and Hillary being supporters of the Communists during the same time frame (and to this day if you ask me
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I don't care for Bush, I care for Kerry even less, but I believe 8 more years of Clinton control will do nothing good for this country. I would be willing to sacrifice 8 years of Kerry control if it assured me the Clintons never lived in the White House again. They were an embarassment to our country right up to the day they moved out.
P.S. Like Florida and all of its residents are soley to blame for the fiasco that occurred last election.
It's not my fault that the last election was so close that it came down to the vote counts of all those wealthy elderly Yankees that retire here in Florida and have an inability to read and punch a ballot correctly. If even one more state had counted its votes in such a way as to support Gore, Florida wouldn't have even mattered.
It is ironic that Gore pandered to the elderly here with empty promises of cheaper and better health care, but the very people he was appealing to had trouble figuring out how to vote.
Regardless of the failures/distortions of the vote counts, I feel justice prevailed. It would not have made sense that Gore could have won a state that would elect Jeb Bush as governor.
By the way, I voted for neither. I voted for Libertarian just to show my distaste for both candidates. But if I had known my vote would have counted so much, I would gladly have voted for Bush just to back those military personnel whose votes would get tossed aside if Al Gore had any say in the matter.
While I was stationed in California, it seemed their governor elections were always plagued by large numbers of votes from dead people who liked democrats. Apparently, Arnold overcame that problem
